re: Most dominant athletes in their prime

Healthy Gronk was just sick. He had some of the most insane touchdowns I've ever seen.

Lmao you do know they play more games now right? I figured you didn’t, LeBron cronies are quite ignorant.

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Dale, Sr.

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Babe Ruth Gretzky.

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Add Wilt Wilt Chamberlain

I think the mist overlooked is Dave Winfield. I keep forgetting about him even though I didn’t see him in college.
Winfield played college baseball and basketball. Drafted in 3 different pro sports and 4 teams total. Dave didn’t even play college football but still got drafted.

Jim Brown seems to be one of the most gifted athletes ever.
From Wiki:
In addition to his football accomplishments, he excelled in basketball, track, and especially lacrosse. As a sophomore, he was the second-leading scorer for the basketball team (15 ppg), and earned a letter on the track team. In 1955, he finished in fifth place in the Nation Championship decathlon.[9] His junior year, he averaged 11.3 points in basketball, and was named a second-team All-American in lacrosse. His senior year, he was named a first-team All-American in lacrosse (43 goals in 10 games to rank second in scoring nationally). He is in the Lacrosse Hall of Fame.[10] The Carrier Dome has an 800 square-foot tapestry depicting Brown in football and lacrosse uniforms with the words "Greatest Player Ever".[11]

Jackie Robinson was also ridiculously athletic and excelled in multiple sports.
In Robinson's final football season at UCLA he led the Bruins in rushing (383 yards), passing (444 yards), total offense (827 yards), scoring (36 points) and punt return average (21 yards). He averaged 5.9 yards per carry in his career.
In 1939 and 1940, Robinson led college football in punt return average.

Secretariat

Jim Brown
Lawrence Taylor
Michael Jordan
LeBron James
Muhammad Ali

Nuff said

As usual, dumb

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Kareem is the most dominant H.S./College athlete ever along with Dan Gable.

Kareem lost 4 games in 7 years of H.S. And College (he wasn't allowed to play as a Freshman; but his Freshman squad beat the defending National Champs UCLA Varsity squad and Preseason #1 in a live reffed scrimmage game by 15 points.)

He won 5 National Titles (H.S. And College) and 5X National Player of the Year (would've been 6 if he had been allowed to play as a Freshman at UCLA and he would have 4 straight National Titles at UCLA.)

Imagine if Tebow started as a Freshman at Florida, won the National Title 4 years in a row and the Heisman 4 years in a row and lost only 2 games in the process.

That's sort of Kareem...oh, and if the NCAA changed the rules to stop Tebow.

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Absolutely should be near the top of the list. Averaged 50 PPG in 1961! His first seven years in the league, ages 23-29, 543 games, he averaged 40 points and 29 boards per game.

On top of that, blocked shots were not tracked until after he retired. However, there are apparently 112 games from his career with enough film/data to extrapolate his blocked shot totals. Over those 112 games, he averaged 8.8 blocks per game. And, those games were late in his career. Imagine what his blocked shot totals were during those first seven seasons.

Numerous NBA rules were added in response to Wilt's dominance.